Hearts of Space #3 - "BEYOND BAROQUE"

by **Hobb** Fri 30 Aug 2019 - 14:07

I believe this to be the best of the nearly 800+ ambient mixes.

https://www.hos.com/playlists/1983/01.12.html wrote:
FEED DATE : 1/12/1983
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GURUMANDER SINGH
BLUE STAR < 0:00->3:30 >
: BLUE STAR; GRD/ Invincible INV118 1983

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
EQUINOXE (Part 5) < 3:30->15:02 >
: EQUINOXE; Disques Dreyfus 800 025-2-- France; 1978
OXYGENE (Part 5) < 15:02->19:13 >
: OXYGENE; Epic EK 68009; 1997

WENDY CARLOS
Brandenberg Concerto No.1 ,Adagio < 19:13->23:15 >
: BACH: SWITCHED ON BRANDENBERGS

TOMASO ALBINONI
Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ < 23:15->33:22 >
: Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan

JEAN PIERRE ALARCEN
Tableau No.1 1st movement (part) < 33:22->41:50 >
: TABLEAU NO. 1; private release-- France 1979

VANGELIS
'LA FETE SAUVAGE' soundtrack (part) (part) < 41:50->53:08 >
: LA FETE SAUVAGE; RCA PL 30036; 1978
'IGNACIO' soundtrack (part) < 53:08->56:34 >
: 'IGNACIO' soundtrack; Bellaphon BLPS-19242

GURUMANDER SINGH
BLUE STAR (part) < 56:34->59:34 >
: BLUE STAR; GRD/ Invincible INV118 1983

It is an excursion through wrapped in 3 layers around a core. The outer layer is great languid guitar/synth from India to book-end the show, the next layer are two absolute classics from the Synth giants (Jarre and Vangelis), the core is 10 minutes of bliss encapsulated in authentic 1700s Italian Baroque. There is a connective layer between the Synth giants and Italian Baroque, coming in it is Wendy Carlos' doing classical music on Moogs, leaving it is an ultra-smooth track that swells to a mellow 1980s guitar climax, it taken from a "private release" by a "talented French session musician".

It is a trip beginning in India, going through France and arriving in Italy, and we re-trace our steps on the way back. It does a similar chronological trip, starting in 1983, then wandering though he 1970s until leaping back to ..... WAIT ..... the core maybe a lie! Shocked

Wikipedia wrote:The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings, and organ continuo is a neo-Baroque composition commonly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment by Albinoni. There is a continuing scholarly debate about whether the alleged fragment was real, or a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto, but there is no doubt about Giazotto's authorship of the remainder of the work.

According to Giazotto, he obtained the document shortly after the end of World War II from the Saxon State Library in Dresden which had preserved most of its collection, though its buildings were destroyed in the bombing raids of February and March 1945 by the British and American Air Forces. Giazotto concluded that the manuscript fragment was a portion of a church sonata (sonata da chiesa, one of two standard forms of the trio sonata) in G minor composed by Albinoni, possibly as part of his Op. 4 set, around 1708.[1]

In his account, Giazotto then constructed the balance of the complete single-movement work based on this fragmentary theme. He copyrighted it and published it in 1958